Network Operations

Managing DNS Zones Using Git

Ondřej Caletka

• 4 Feb 2019

• 12 min read

Using zone files for managing the Domain Name System (DNS) zone data is the most basic and flexible way to manage the authoritative DNS data. In this post, we will describe how the Git version control system can be used to store zone file history and protect against errors.

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Accelerating the Transition to IPv6 in France

Samih Souissi

• 9 Jan 2019

• 4 min read

In January 2016, the French Government called upon Arcep (the French telecommunications regulator) to produce an opinion on the state of IPv6 deployment in France, inviting them to draw up a precise situation report on the deployment of IPv6 in France, to identify the difficulties and obstacles as…

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IPv6 Misconceptions: It’s Fake News (cont)

Jen Linkova

• 21 Dec 2018

• 6 min read

Here is the second part of common IPv6 misconceptions that are often used as reasons for not deploying IPv6.

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IPv6 Misconceptions: It’s Fake News

Jen Linkova

• 20 Dec 2018

• 5 min read

As I was preparing my keynote presentation for the recent UK IPv6 Council AGM held in London earlier this month, it occurred to me that I’ve spent a significant amount of time talking about how good IPv6 is at these and other meetings, often to those who are already championing and using the protoc…

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Join the Amsterdam RPKI Deployathon 2019

Vesna Manojlovic

• 20 Dec 2018

• 8 min read

The RIPE NCC and Juniper Networks are co-hosting the first RPKI deployathon in March 2019 - a two-day event which will bring together network professionals to work on practical aspects of routing security.

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Uncovering Remote Peering at IXPs

Vasileios Giotsas

• 12 Dec 2018

• 10 min read

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) originally aimed to keep local traffic local and reduce dependence on third parties. However, ever-increasing traffic volumes create pressure for denser and more diverse peering that challenges the traditional IXP model. A fundamental shift in peering practices is R…

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DoH - It's DNS Jim, but not as we know it!

Sara Dickinson

• 6 Dec 2018

• 19 min read

At RIPE 77, I talked about what’s been going on with DNS over the past five years from the perspective of end devices. Now in article form, here's what I had to say about the status of the IETF standards for DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) as well as the deployment status of clients and…

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New MRT-BGP Reader Six Times Faster Than its Predecessors

Lorenzo Cogotti

• 5 Dec 2018

• 7 min read

With an increasing number of route collectors and the resulting increase in available routing data, how do we analyse such a large amount of data in a reasonable time? BGP Scanner was developed to meet the limitations of existing large-scale BGP data analysis tools.

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OpenBGPD - Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape

Claudio Jeker

• 28 Nov 2018

• 8 min read

Thanks to the RIPE NCC Community Project Fund we were able to revive the OpenBGPD daemon and bring more diversity to the Route Server landscape.

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Twelve Steps to Enable IPv6 in Government and Enterprise Networks

Jordi Palet Martinez

• 23 Nov 2018

• 10 min read

In the first part of this two-part series, I shared a recent IPv6 deployment case study I worked on for a government network in the LACNIC region, concentrating on the hereditary peculiarities in the network that we had to overcome, many of which are common among government and organisational netwo…

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